There are many different uses for Photoshop, and there are several techniques that achieve these. One of the techniques is blending colours.

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Steps

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Customize your brush (either a pencil tool or a brush tool) by going to Options palette. There you can pick the size of your brush from the different size options. You can use the default brush if you are just starting out and then start customizing the size when you need variations.

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Choose "Hard Edge" or "Soft Edge" when customizing your brush size.

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Create your own brush by choosing "New Brush" from the Brush Options menu in the Options palette. You can choose either one, then define the size and parameters (hardness, diameter, spacing and angles) to create your custom brush.

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Customize your brush mode. When you go to the Brushes palette for either the pencil or brush tool, you will find in each a pop-up menu of varying brush modes. These modes are used to modify how a tool will integrate with existing color on the canvas.

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Choose any of the different modes on the menu. Bear in mind that when you draw something using Photoshop, the software will modify the existing pixels in the background similar to how it works when you are painting. For example, if you paint a streak of red over a blue background, it will be modified to a purple color. Brush modes are important in modifying the way you blend colors and how they interact.

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Choose the Normal mode to apply a full blend value. When using the Painting tool, the base color will be coated completely by the blend color. When the Edit tool is used, the existing color is overridden by the edit value.

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Use the Threshold mode to ensure that the color value of the tool is applied according to the closest available color in the color map.

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Use the Dissolve mode to randomly scatter the blend color, giving it a rough texture and non-anti-aliased brush stroke.

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Choose the Behind and Clear modes to modify the foreground and background colors. These two modes are available in layered images. For example, if the Behind mode is chosen, a color will be applied behind the layer and show only in transparent areas.

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Use the Multiply mode to multiply the brightness of the base color and the blend to create a darker tone.

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Use the Color Burn mode to darken the shadows and contrast the base color that has low contrast. This blend mode is an opposite of Color Dodge.

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Use the Linear Burn mode to darken the base color and make a darker tone with it. The same mode applies to subtract but the lighter the color is, the darker the color gets. Linear Burn is an opposite of the Additive mode.

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Use the Screen mode to lessen the brightness of the base color and the blend to create a lighter tone. Screen mode is the opposite of the Multiply mode.

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Use the Color Dodge mode to lighten the photo's highlights or the whole photo that is not meant to be hard to see. The same can occur to Divide, but with an inverted color. Color Dodge mode is an opposite of the Color Burn mode.

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Use the Linear Dodge (Additive) mode of the base color to create a lighter tone along with lightening the highlights.Linear Dodge is an opposite of Linear Burn.

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Use the Overlay mode so that the hues of the base color will move toward the blend color. This mode functions similarly with the Screen and Multiply modes, depending on the value of the base color.

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Use the Darken mode to darken the base color, using the blend color as a basis.

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Use the Lighten mode to lighten the base color by using the lightest value of the blend color.

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Use the Difference mode to compare the brightness values of the base and blend colors, creating a result value by subtracting the smaller from larger values.

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Use the Subtract mode to burn the base color and darken or contrast the base color. The blend mode is the opposite of divide and is a reversed variant of Linear Burn.

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Use the Divide mode to increase the brightness of the base color and to lighten the highlights. Divide is the opposite of subtract and a reversed variant of Color Dodge.

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Use the Hue mode to replace the hue of the base with the hue of the blend.

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Use the Saturation mode to replace the saturation of the base and blend.

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Use the Color mode to adjust the combination of both hue and saturation.

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Use the Luminosity mode to work similarly with that of the lightness value to give a luminous effect.

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Choose the commands "Reset Tool" or "Reset All Tools" to bring you back to the default settings in case you have messed up the settings.

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